National Garden Scheme: Open Garden and Wine Tour: Ashling Park Estate
https://findagarden.ngs.org.uk/garden/44353/ashling-park-estate
A genuinely interesting vineyard trip with red wine tasting in help of National Garden Scheme charities. Starts without delay at 10am.
First produced in the 19th century Ashling Park was sited on the Tithe Map and has actually had a brand-new lease of life when a vineyard was planted in 2017. Ashling Park Estate Ltd is entirely owned by couple group Gail and Matthew Gardner. The 50acre estate homes a multi-faceted business consisting of a vineyard, 7,200 square foot tasting spaces, 5 high-end lodges, restaurant, shop, experience room, gin school, conference room, 50 beehives, one million bees and a bee room for our ‘be a beekeeper for the day’ occasions and courses. It’s all hands-on in the vineyard, supported by a fantastic and valued group of experts who have actually been supporting the vines and vineyard from the start. To guarantee that just the absolute best grapes enter into our white wines, we gather our grapes typically, by hand.
Ashling Park Estate is open for the National Garden Scheme Wed 13th September and Wed 20thSeptember. The trip begins without delay at 10am and ends at 11.30am. Admission £8, kids complimentary. Wine and teas. Pre-reservation is vital. Book on the National Garden Scheme website
Ashling Park Estate West Ashling Chichester, West Sussex PO18 9DJ
Located on the Funtington Rd, 5m W of Chichester.
Through the big metal gates onto the personal driveway to the vineyard.
About the National Garden Scheme
The National Garden Scheme was established in 1927 by The Queen’s Nursing Institute to raise money for district nurses. Ever ever since it has actually provided yearly contributions to nursing and health charities amounting to over £67 million. It offers visitors special, inexpensive access to over 3,500 remarkable personal gardens in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands and raises excellent quantities through admission charges and the sale of tea and cake.
Thanks to the kindness of garden owners, volunteers and visitors we are now the most considerable charitable funder of nursing in the UK. As well as the Queen’s Nursing Institute, our recipients consist of Macmillan Cancer Support, Marie Curie, Hospice UK and Parkinson’s UK.
The National Garden Scheme doesn’t simply open gorgeous gardens for charity – we are enthusiastic about the physical and psychological health advantages of gardens too. We fund tasks which promote gardens and gardening as treatment, and in 2016 commissioned The Kings Fund report Gardens and Health Our Gardens and Coronavirus 2020: The significance of gardens and outside areas throughout lockdown report was released in September 2020.
Visit to learn more about the work of the National Garden Scheme, to look for gardens opening in your location or to learn how to open your own garden.
